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Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo
Read for the second time on audiobook July/August 2017.
First read review:
THIS BOOK MAKES ME SO CONFUSED!!!
Aline is an apprentice map-maker until the day she crosses the Shadow Fold with the army of Ravka and sets loose a powerful stream of light to ward away the monsters trying to kill her and her friends. It turns out that Alina is a Grisha, the word for magician in Ravka, and her power is something that could save everybody. Now Alina needs to learn how to use her power while trying to trust The Darkling, the most powerful Grisha, and also sort out her own feelings for her childhood friend Mal.
I've heard so much about this trilogy so I was afraid of going into it and being disappointed but I wasn't at all in the end. Once I got into the story, it took a few chapters for me to get my hear around the Russian-style words and the 'ki' at the end of everything, I was hooked. I love the magic system of the Grishas (reminds me a bit of Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician trilogy and how they're separated into their skills by colour) and I'm definitely guilty of falling in love with The Darkling. He's so addicting and I just wanted more him and more sexy time between him and Alina and then he went and ruined everything. And even though he's a total tyrant, I STILL LOVE HIM. His whole aura reminds me of The Dragon from Uprooted, plus a bit of Akkarin from The Black Magician trilogy AND Valek from Poison Study (and okay, a bit of Voldemort's cray-cray) and apart from Voldy, I love all those characters so much so The Darkling is bae, okay?
I wish I could Mal just as much but I don't really right now. He's alright, he just doesn't set me on fire. I'm looking forward to seeing Nikolai in Siege and Storm because I've heard him mentioned a lot too.
I love Alina's character development. She starts off being a confused, scrawny girl with no idea where her place in the world is and she grew so much in strength and confidence. I can't wait to see where she goes in the next books and how she grows even more. Onward to Siege and Storm (claps hands and descends into darkness).
First read review:
THIS BOOK MAKES ME SO CONFUSED!!!
Aline is an apprentice map-maker until the day she crosses the Shadow Fold with the army of Ravka and sets loose a powerful stream of light to ward away the monsters trying to kill her and her friends. It turns out that Alina is a Grisha, the word for magician in Ravka, and her power is something that could save everybody. Now Alina needs to learn how to use her power while trying to trust The Darkling, the most powerful Grisha, and also sort out her own feelings for her childhood friend Mal.
I've heard so much about this trilogy so I was afraid of going into it and being disappointed but I wasn't at all in the end. Once I got into the story, it took a few chapters for me to get my hear around the Russian-style words and the 'ki' at the end of everything, I was hooked. I love the magic system of the Grishas (reminds me a bit of Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician trilogy and how they're separated into their skills by colour) and I'm definitely guilty of falling in love with The Darkling. He's so addicting and I just wanted more him and more sexy time between him and Alina and then he went and ruined everything. And even though he's a total tyrant, I STILL LOVE HIM. His whole aura reminds me of The Dragon from Uprooted, plus a bit of Akkarin from The Black Magician trilogy AND Valek from Poison Study (and okay, a bit of Voldemort's cray-cray) and apart from Voldy, I love all those characters so much so The Darkling is bae, okay?
I wish I could Mal just as much but I don't really right now. He's alright, he just doesn't set me on fire. I'm looking forward to seeing Nikolai in Siege and Storm because I've heard him mentioned a lot too.
I love Alina's character development. She starts off being a confused, scrawny girl with no idea where her place in the world is and she grew so much in strength and confidence. I can't wait to see where she goes in the next books and how she grows even more. Onward to Siege and Storm (claps hands and descends into darkness).